Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Aldous Huxley Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anna Quindlen Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Benjamin Cohen Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Camille Paglia Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical patriarchy their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Blaise Pascal Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Calvin Trillin Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    Source: The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Euripides Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Havelock Ellis Every artist writes his own autobiography.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Bill Veeck Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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